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[Suggestion] New topic form text

Reading some of the posts here on Artix forum, I noticed that often an answer could already be found in Artix or Arch wiki, or found by web search on one of the Stack Exchange sites, etc. I think that alium's thread is great, but also seems to go unnoticed by the majority.

So I returned to the idea I had a while back.

I think the approach implemented on Stackoverflow and similar Stack Exchange sites is better to get the idea through. When one activates the link to ask a question, he is presented with a form whose input fields are surrounded by hints about asking the question. For example:
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Be specific and imagine you’re asking a question to another person
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Include all the information someone would need to answer your question
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The community is here to help you with specific coding, algorithm, or language problems.
Avoid asking opinion-based questions.
  • Summarize the problem
    • Include details about your goal
    • Describe expected and actual results
    • Include any error messages
  • Describe what you’ve tried
  • Show some code
When the title of the new question is entered, a search for similar questions is done in the background and the user is presented with a few of the found topics. This makes the user to at least pause for a moment and think if someone has already made that question, or how it can be improved. Here's how it looks:


I'm not sure how easy would that search be implemented in ElkArte, but I think that at least the form elements could be modified to include some of the points from alium's post and a link to it. This is my suggestion in any case.